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“A direct-to-home satellite television satellite”. Also its alternative forms, and their various plurals. —Ruakh_TALK 15:52, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

That's dead simple

• If satellite television, whether or not delivered by an American "death star," offers lower costs and/or higher benefits than do other media -- "Media and identity in contemporary Europe: consequences of global convergence" by Richard Collins, pp.20, →ISBN
• panelists also said cable operators' predictions that DBS would be "death star" are unfounded -- "Television Digest", Volume 30, page 17 (1990)
• Canadian cable and broadcast systems and the Canadian government have reacted with alarm at this new competitor, known north of the border as Death Star, whose satellites' footprints cover most of the populous areas of Canada -- Cable TV: regulation or competition?, Volume 5 By Robert W. Crandall, Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth, pp.92, →ISBN
• cable TV incumbents—who fearfully referenced the technological entrant as the "death star"—undertook serious network expansion. -- Handbook of Telecommunications Economics: Technology evolution and the internet , pp.208, →ISBN
• 'CBC climbs aboard "death star,"' proclaimed the Globe and Mail. Cable and network competitors were said to be reeling -- Rewind and search: conversations with the makers and decision-makers of CBC, pp.481, by Mary Jane Miller , →ISBN
• DTH or "Death Star," as it has been dubbed, is an extraordinary technology. A satellite produces signals strong enough, pp.75, "Understanding telecommunications and lightwave systems: an entry-level guide" by John G. Nellist, →ISBN
• Satellite TV has been called the "death star" because it poses an economic threat to the continued existence of cable companies. -- "Ink into bits: a web of converging media" by Charles T. Meadow pp.121 →ISBN
• The danger is not in the same league as the "Death Star," that delightfully emotive label which describes a proposed digital television satellite which is intended to beam 500 television channels to homes across America. -- "Understanding digital TV: the route to HDTV" pp.8 by Brian Evans →ISBN

70.24.251.158 10:07, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Also

• For Canadian television, this was brought home when, in recent years, some Canadian consumers began to subscribe to US direct-to-home (DTH-the so-called Deathstar) satellites that transmit directly into Canadian homes -- "Communications in Canadian Society" by Craig McKie, Benjamin D. Singer, pp.49 →ISBN
• In addition, a number of countries have launched their own satellites, including India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, France, and China. "Deathstar" is what cable operators call GEOS, because the new DBS programming -- "Digital TV over broadband: harvesting bandwidth", pp.353, →ISBN by Joan M. Van Tassel
• the CRTC will have no direct jurisdiction over multinational "deathstar" technology. -- "Karla's web: a cultural investigation of the Mahaffy-French murders", pp.240, by Frank Davey, →ISBN
• the cause for concern is the forthcoming "deathstar" DBS satellite to be launched in December 1993 by Hughes Communications. -- Cable vision, Volume 16, Issues 14-26 (1992)

70.24.251.158 10:16, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

But almost all (or all?) of those are mentions. Deleted. - -sche (discuss) 05:53, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

No they're not. They're uses using scare quotes. —Angr 09:54, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Restored. - -sche (discuss) 03:40, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Meh, kept. - -sche (discuss) 03:14, 2 March 2012 (UTC)